Where were you 50yrs ago 11-22-63

[ILLMAS]

Most people I ask remember that day.

[Guest Taxed]

In elementary school!

Do remember adults glued to TV (only 1 Black and white RCA TV then in the dining room, on a wheel cart). Did not know what was going on.

[Margaret CPA in OH]

High school English class.

JFK had visited our really small town on the campaign trail. My best friend's father was the ambulance (in case of emergency) driver parked by the stand where he gave a speech so we were within 50 feet of him on the dais. I really had little idea of politics at the time but it was exciting to be so close to a real presidential candidate.

[Kea]

Not sure - probably my crib or playpen.

[michaelmars]

on hold for ATX support!

[Eric]

My parents were 6 and 8 years old... you old farts.

[GeneInAlabama]

I had gotten up from bed after working the midnight shift and walked over to the store across the road. The store owner told me that the president had been shot. I couldn't believe it.

[mcb39]

I was in my living room with my two toddler boys; we had a black and white TV on a stand and in the middle of preparation for a trip to Grandma's house for hunting and Thanksgiving. Walter Cronkite came on and broke the news and the world as we knew it came to a stop.

[Guest Taxed]

My parents were 6 and 8 years old... you old farts.

You are young enough to be my son

[Lloyd Hudson]

Eating lunch at local diner, Operating a garage. Owner of diner brought out a small tv and set it on hostesses stand. Almost all businesses closed rest of day.

[RitaB]

I wasn't here yet, either. But I have a friend who was born on that day. Is that news worthy? Old farts?

[ILLMAS]

In math negative numbers do count but in real life they don't, so that would put me at -12 years.

[JohnH]

I was in class (high school sophomore).

CS Lewis died on that same day in England, but it was hardly mentioned in the news anywhere.

[Gail in Virginia]

I was still in the pre-school stage so I don't remember this day 50 years ago. I remember when I heard that Bobby Kennedy had been shot.

[BulldogTom]

Not even a twinkle in my daddy's eye yet.

Tom

Hollister, CA

[Elrod]

Vietnam....

[GLJEANNE]

Just under 3 years old, but that day is my earliest memory. The TV, my sibs trickling home from school and dropping to the floor in front of the TV, no one moving, no one getting up to turn on lights as it got dark. Too young to appreciate the horror of what had happened, of course, but I remember how stunning it was to me that no one was moving or talking or turning on lights, that dinner time came and went and no one cared.

[taxxcpa]

At that time, I was working for the State Comptroller in the Dallas regional office. On the day of Kennedy's assassination I had gone to Austin to visit a friend. My friend was in the process of having a new house built and we went to see the builder. When we got there, the builder was crying and told us Kennedy had been assassinated.

[kcjenkins]

I was at home, in Pasadena, TX, we did not own a TV, but I had the radio on, and when the news came on I walked to the store where Don was working. None of us wanted to believe it could happen here in the USA. Nothing much happened the rest of that day, because everyone was in shock and just watching TV and talking to each other.

[cred65]

I was a rookie CPA working for what is now PWCL,CPAs and on assignment at a clients business. When our audit team returned from lunch the client’s employees informed us that the president had been shot. It was another hour before JFK was pronounced dead.

[NECPA in NEBRASKA]

My parents' were getting ready to go back to work and drop my back at school (1st grade) after lunch when it came on our tv. I just remember that my mom and our babysitter were crying, which made my baby sister cry, too.

[grmy2h]

I asked my mom and she can't recall what I was doing that day, but she recalls what I was doing on JFK's inauguration day.....she was giving birth to me!!! 1/20/1961.

[Lion EA]

In high school, PE class I think. Remember sitting on the floor with a girlfriend someplace in a basement (we were probably scheduled to be outside and didn't have a gym or room available) listening to the PA system. They canceled school the next day.

[mcb39]

I was at home, in Pasadena, TX, we did not own a TV, but I had the radio on, and when the news came on I walked to the store where Don was working. None of us wanted to believe it could happen here in the USA. Nothing much happened the rest of that day, because everyone was in shock and just watching TV and talking to each other.

In most homes nothing much happened for the next several days as entire families were glued to the TV and, as Jeanne said, mealtimes came and went. It was pretty much nonstop TV from the 22nd through the shooting of Osswald, through the lying in state and the funeral. I honestly think that anyone who lived through it and remembers it; has never felt the same. Regardless of political affiliation.

[SFA]

5th grade. I remember people crying and even classmates crying--it was contagious. Then time was suspended while we watched the replay over and over again.